

It’s a pity this keyboard shortcut only works in Office apps and not all apps that use a file dialog box. The standard methods don’t seem to work.)
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(Note to readers: If you know how to change the search engine used here from MSN Live to something else, please let me know. When you do so, instantly the dialog box closes (with no action taken), and your web browser comes up, with a search engine displayed.

You could just use your mouse to hit this button, the “Search the Web” button: Instead of hitting Esc to cancel the file dialog box, and then pressing Ctrl+Esc to get the Start menu and then running your web browser, and then opening up a search engine, you can do all of that with one button. Or it could be a Save As file dialog box (by pressing F12, or selecting File | Save As).Īnd then you change your mind, and want to search the web instead. It could be an Open file dialog box (by pressing Ctrl+O or using the File | Open menu, or by pressing Ctrl+F12). Any changes you make in the top portion are immediately reflected in the bottom portion, and vice versa.īut, just suppose: You’re in Word or Excel or PowerPoint. Note that a split is really just a different way of viewing the same document - you only have one copy.

Now, scroll to wherever you want (and remember the Ctrl+G or F5 shortcut that lets you go to whatever page you want right away).Press Up Arrow or Down Arrow until the split is where you want it, then press Enter.Press Alt+Ctrl+S, and a split cursor appears.It’s not 100% keyboard only, but try this: The easiest way to handle such tasks is to split the screen so that you can display page 2 on the top half, and page 43 on the bottom half, and then work with whatever half you want. This morning I was working with a long document in Microsoft Word, and I wanted to compare something I’d written on page 43 with something that written back on page 2.
